Rusalka & Antonín Dvořák / Opera in Three Acts

Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil based on Undine by La Motte Fouqué, The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, and Slavic mythology.
When Dvořák returned from his travels to America in Protected content , he was a different man. After abandoning the symphony as a genre, he dedicated the last decade of his life to two exuberant musical forms, the symphonic poem and opera. The works that resulted, extraordinarily poetic, were Dvořák’s attempt to reach the heart of the Czech spirit, describing in music and theatre the stories most cherished by his countrymen.
Rusalka—a lyrical fable in three acts—premiered in Prague in Protected content is the most well-known and beloved opera—along with Smetana's The Bartered Bride—of Czech opera. Dvořák had already shown his interest in Czech folklore in a series of symphonic poems inspired by the popular ballads of Karel Jaromír Erben and decisively adopted a libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil, centered around a water spirit or nymph, inspired by the popular Undine Protected content Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué and also The Little Mermaid Protected content Hans Christian Andersen.

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